Top 10 Animation / Multimedia Colleges in Manitoba

If animated characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tom& Jerry and Stuart Little etc. are hard to forget then it is due to advent of Multimedia that merges text, images, graphics, animation, audio and video to create virtual magic.

Animation and multimedia serve both entertainment and education industries alike. Job prospects for animators are rising at a very fast pace thanks to the boom in the entertainment and gaming industry.

Now animation has got a good hold over movies, television and advertising industries due to the excessive use of it for special effects. It is a rapid display of 2D or 3D images to create an illusion of motion.

The animation is a multi-billion dollar industry that generates employment in huge number. Every year the animation industry requires more than 30,000 qualified professionals.*

There are several areas where one can work as Modeler, Layout artist, Clean-up artist, Scanner operator, Digital ink and paint artist, Compositor, Keyframe animator, Background Artist, In-between Animator etc.

Students who have completed their 12th standard with the minimum of 45% marks having basic knowledge of handling computers can apply for these courses. A Bachelor in Fine Arts (BFA) is also a very important course to step into the animation arena.

Some of the big names in the animation industry like Fun Bag Animation, Warner Brothers, Industrial Light and Magic and Disney etc. are now exploring India to produce their animation movies on a co-production basis.

For the job seekers there are various avenues like Entertainment in movies and television, Business product promotions and marketing demos, Sales presentations, Education Computer Based Tutorials, Web-Based Tutorials, Publishing graphics and printing, Virtual reality in Defense, Web designing, Engineering Advertising ,Commercials and Print ads, Fashion designing and Interior designing, Development of computer games and mobile games, Medical, legal and Insurance industry for presentation of the models and leading studios and training Institutes.